[OS X TeX] Installing a package on MacTeX

[Oleg Kobchenko]

How to install a package?

I installed MacTeX from
http://www.tug.org/mactex/

Now a need to install a package from TUG,
for example, skak
http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/skak.html

I expect to run a utility that would download
or at least installs from disk, like MikTeX does.

I ended up writing my owm make file, see below.
Is that really a way to go? (I don't want to
deal with the whole TeXLive DVD.)


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# installs a TeX package

PAKNAME=skak
TEXDST=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local

all: info

info:
	@echo usage:
	@echo "  sudo make install"
	@echo "  sudo make uninstall"
	@echo ""
	@echo See the Makefile for more settings

install:
	@echo Installing $(PAKNAME)
	mkdir $(TEXDST)/doc/latex/$(PAKNAME)
	cp doc/* $(TEXDST)/doc/latex/$(PAKNAME)
	mkdir $(TEXDST)/fonts/mf/$(PAKNAME)
	cp mf/* $(TEXDST)/fonts/mf/$(PAKNAME)
	mkdir $(TEXDST)/tex/latex/$(PAKNAME)
	cp tex/* $(TEXDST)/tex/latex/$(PAKNAME)
	mktexlsr

uninstall:
	@echo Uninstalling $(PAKNAME)
	rm -rf $(TEXDST)/doc/latex/$(PAKNAME)
	rm -rf $(TEXDST)/fonts/mf/$(PAKNAME)
	rm -rf $(TEXDST)/tex/latex/$(PAKNAME)
	mktexlsr

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